Just curious. I know everybody’s different.

  • DrinkableReno@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    UGh for real. All of the “Which camera should I buy for $$$” is just like…there are whole websites devoted to buying guides for your insanely tiny budget. Or the other day someone asked for help with his homework identifying certain concepts in his photos and I’m like…did you try looking up each individual concept on google so that you could apply it to these photos? that’s literally the task your teacher was trying to teach you…It kills me. It’s so hard not to be a dick on the internet about stuff like that.

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      10 months ago

      “what do the rings on my lens do?”

      “how come I can’t use my brand X lens on my brand y camera? I got a good deal on it?”

      "how do I get the film out?

      “what focal length should I start out with?”

      “how come all my pictures are dark?” (didn’t even bother to understand exposure)

      Like, come on, youtube has hundreds of hours of videos to help get you started - there’s 20+ years of forum posts

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        10 months ago

        Preach! I have to imagine many of these folks must be much older and just never figured out how to google. they’re used to calling their kids or something for help on anything. at least that what it feels like.

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          10 months ago

          Or so young that they never had to learn anything other than natural language queries, perhaps. “Into to X” or “basics of X” vs “How do I take photos of a kids baseball game in the evening when the skies are cloudy?”

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            10 months ago

            Was recently at a social media training - part of my work - where they claimed that young people no longer use Google to find information, they use Tik Tok. Not sure if true, but if so, might explain some of it.